Abstract

The mining extraction occupies an important place in Democratic Republic of Congo. It is an economic activity that touches some thousand of Congolese. In the North-Kivu Province, to the occurrence, the mining exploitation is a source of the essential incomes for a few hundreds of the thousands of families. Thus, in Masisi territory, the casual artisanal mining exploitation uses more 3000 young, of which a big number comes of other regions in search of a permanent or seasonal use. While undertaking this survey, we wanted to detect the different dark ways in which left the income of these mining products of our object of survey and to measure the level of investment, of saving as well as the mind of initiative in relation to the creation of other units of production of the population of Rubaya. To harvest the data the technique of the questionnaire as well as the methods statistical, inductive and comparative us useful summer. Also, the software packages Eviews 3.1 and SPSS 16.0 allowed us to make analyses économétriques of the survey. The results show that the mining extraction of Rubaya doesn't constitute the main activity for the population of Rubaya because we found that there is also the mining operators who exercise other activities such as : trade, agriculture, raising and the salaried work. The impact of the artisanal mining exploitation on the life style of the creuseurs of Rubaya is positive according to the found results. We met that so much Didgers don't consume all of their income, but on the contrary, they also save as investment.